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"Fred's Second Car" is the seventeenth episode of the fifth season of the original series, The Flintstones. It aired on January 8, 1965.
Fred buys a gangster's car for almost nothing from a police auction, but his plan goes wrong when Big Sparkle and his men, a trio of notorious gangsters, track the car down and plot to kill Fred and Barney off.
When Fred reads from an elderly man's journal on a bus that confiscated or impounded-and-unclaimed cars are being auctioned by the Bedrock Police, he believes this to be his and Barney's opportunity to inexpensively purchase an additional car for recreational purposes.
Fred and Barney attend the auction, with Barney bringing thereto some supplies (including glue) for repairing minor damage to a possible successfully-bidden-upon Stone Age transporter, and a bi-stone-log-wheeled car with a blue wooden carriage captures Fred and Barney's fancy. It also happens to be the car of the infamous Slimyrock Gang of now-jailed jewel thieves whose unrecovered booty is rumored to be somewhere in its body.
A ruthless, bespectacled and villainous kingpin of crime, Big Sparkle, who enjoys non-precision stone-firing gun target-practicing with cans placed upon the heads of his henchmen (and when accidentally killing his stooges says, "Tsk, tsk, tsk."), intends to acquire this particular car and sends two thugs, Herman (tall but not nimble-minded) and Linko (diminutive but incisively tongued), to the auction to bid highest on it. Linko bids while Herman confers with Big Sparkle in front of the police auction house.
When bidding between Fred and Linko escalates and Linko threatens physical harm to Fred and Barney if his bidding does not prevail, Barney, behind Linko's back, pours some of his glue into the bag of caramel-coated popcorn being eaten during the auction by the hoodlum, whose mouth is therefore sealed closed, rendering him incapable of outbidding Fred and Barney, who triumphantly buy the car.
After Fred and Barney conduct the car to Fred's home to show it to their squeamish wives (who quite rightly comment that the car looks like the property of gangsters), Fred drives the car, accompanied by Barney and Dino, for a pleasure excursion, and Big Sparkle and his minions pursue Fred, Barney, and Dino, rapid-firing stones at them, knocking Dino out of the beleaguered vehicle and forcing Fred and Barney to seek shelter in a building that Fred and Barney too late learn is the crime syndicate's headquarters.
Fred and Barney are locked in a room while Big Sparkle and his lackeys search the car for the gems- and do not find them. Dino, outside of the building and unseen by the criminals, is, through a barred "window", entrusted by Fred to run to Wilma and Betty for help, which he does, and Wilma and Betty, following Dino's directions to Fred and Barney's place of confinement, hurry, past the car-driving speed limit, to their spouses' rescue, and are followed by police.
•Fred Flintstone
•Wilma Flintstone
•Barney Rubble
•Betty Rubble
•Pebbles Flintstone
•Bamm-Bamm Rubble
Bedrock
•Flintstone home •Rubble home •Bedrock Police Station •Big Sparkle Headquarters (only appearance) •Rockville (in a sign)
•Snorkasaurus
•Hopparoo
•Pigeonasaurus
•Pterodactyl (as Scrambled Pterodactyl Eggs)
•Monkeysaurus
•Brontosaurus (as Brontosaurus Bacon)
•Rock and Trot Bus Line Bus (only appearance)
•Loggin Continental
•Bi-Stone Log Wheeler (only appearance)
•Police motorcycle
- 3 min
Fred's Second Car: Directed by Joseph Barbera, William Hanna. With Alan Reed, Jean Vander Pyl, Mel Blanc, Henry Corden. Fred buys a used car at a police auction and pursued by gangsters who want the car.
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- Animation, Adventure, Comedy
- Joseph Barbera, William Hanna
- 1965-01-08
The Flintstones. Season 5 Episode 17 - Fred's Second Car. 1960 · 26 min. TV-G. Kids & Family · Animation · Comedy. Fred buys a second car and finds that a gang of jewel thieves wants it. Subtitles: English. Starring: Alan Reed Jean Vander Pyl Mel Blanc Bea Benaderet Don Messick John Stephenson. Directed by: William Hanna Joseph Barbera. Season 5.
- William Hanna, Joseph Barbera
- January 1, 1965
- 25 min
Characters. Main characters: Fred Flintstone | Wilma Flintstone | Barney Rubble | Betty Rubble | Dino | Pebbles Flintstone | Bamm-Bamm Rubble | Mr. Slate | The Great Gazoo | Pearl Slaghoople | Hoppy | Arnold | Joe Rockhead | Baby Puss.
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Jan 3, 2023 · "Fred's Second Car" is the seventeenth episode of The Flintstones season five, and the hundred and twenty-eighth overall. It aired on January 8 , 1965 on ABC . It was written by Rance Howard , and produced and directed by William Hanna and Joseph Barbera , the creators of the series and the founders of Hanna-Barbera Productions .
Fred is in the market for a second car and buys one at a local police auction. But he's unaware that the vehicle contains a fortune in stolen gems and that the jewel thieves who hid them have returned to get them back.
